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Teachers' Pay and Pupil Performance
Dolton, Peter; Gutierrez, Oscar Marcenaro - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
If you pay peanuts, do you get monkeys? If teachers were better paid and higher up the national income distribution, would there be an improvement in pupil performance? Peter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez examine the enormous variation in teachers' pay across OECD countries and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351536
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Young People Without Qualifications: How 'Headline Numbers' Shape Policy and Aspiration
Steedman, Hilary - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
England's most widely used indicator of young people's education and labour market status is the NEET category - 'not … in education, employment or training'. Making comparisons with how France and Germany measure school leavers' progression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351537
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In brief: Does management matter in schools?
Lemos, Renata - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Better school management is associated with better pupil achievement, according to CEP analysis of the quality of management practices in schools in a range of developed and developing countries. Renata Lemos notes that the quality of school management is related to leadership traits of the head...
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Everybody needs good neighbours?
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
There are large disparities between the achievements, behaviour and aspirations of children in different neighbourhoods - but does this mean that the place where you grow up determines your later life outcomes? Steve Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt outline the findings of a series of CEP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774264
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Does school spending matter?
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
income devoted to education would make much of a difference, they ask what is the ideal balance of spending between early … years, primary and secondary education. They conclude that there is no compelling case to support a transfer of resources … from later stages of education to early years: early years investment may offer higher returns, but the returns erode …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721426
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Everybody needs good neighbours?
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
There are large disparities between the achievements, behaviour and aspirations of children in different neighbourhoods - but does this mean that the place where you grow up determines your later life outcomes? Steve Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt outline the findings of a series of CEP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738422
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Educational efficiency: value for money in public spending on schools
Dolton, Peter; Gutierrez, Oscar Marcenaro; Still, Adam - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
Which national education systems deliver the best value for money? Peter Dolton and colleagues rank 30 of the world …'s richest countries based on their expenditure on teacher costs (which account for 80% of education budgets) and the pupil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123601
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Pupils' progress: how children's perceptions influence their efforts
Ouazad, Amine; Page, Lionel - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
What is the impact of a pupil's perceptions of how their teachers will treat them on their motivation, efforts and educational achievements? To explore this question, Amine Ouazad and Lionel Page have conducted an experiment in which school children could use pocket money to place small bets on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645879
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In brief: Urban schools: does money make a difference?
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
This research paper is motivated by a long tail at the bottom of the educational distribution, educational inequality between those from high and low socio-economic groups and the question as to what role an increase in school resources has in changing all this. The issue about whether investing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549057
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Big ideas: valuing schooling through house prices
Gibbons, Steve - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Steve Gibbons describes the development of CEP research showing how much house prices are boosted by the quality of local schools
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571391